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An external display is a display device, such as a TV, projector, or extra monitor, that is not the primary display for the computer. Use this tag if your question is specific to the external display, rather than about multiple monitors in general.

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Monitor doesn't wake up after sleep when connected via DP to a closed-lid MacBook Pro

I normally use my MacBook Pro with the lid closed and connected to a external monitor via Thunderbolt (mini-DisplayPort) to DisplayPort cable. The issue I have is that when the Mac is asleep, and I ...
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Windows 10 - Disable third monitor automatically when it's powered off

I have three monitor outputs from my video card: monitor 1, monitor 2, and a projector. The Windows display settings looks like this: monitor setup If the projector is turned off, and I move my ...
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Is it possible to connect an external Monitor to an Apple Thunderbolt Display?

Well the title says it all but still. Is there a way to connect an external monitor using a DVI->MiniDP converter to the Thunderbolt Port on the Apple Thunderbolt Display?
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How to turn my 10 inch tablet into primary PC touch monitor (Windows 7)?

How to turn my 10 inch tablet into primary PC touch monitor (Windows 7) ? There is alike question How would you turn a tablet into a keyboard + easy-to-reach touchscreen (mirror the desktop) (not a ...
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How to prevent secondary display space from merging with laptop space in macOS?

Any way to maintain space integrity when plugging / unplugging secondary display in macOS? For example, I like having 4 desktops/spaces (a, b, c, d) on my laptop and 2 on my 2nd monitor (e, f). When ...
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No HDMI output on Debian 8 laptop

WHAT DOESN'T WORK: I'm running Debian 8 on a Dell M4800 laptop and I'm unable to get it to talk to a new external monitor via either HDMI or DisplayPort. The Debian 8 (Mate) Live USB also does not ...
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OS X Yosemite fonts jagged/blurry on external monitor

Anyone have any suggestions on possible fixes for jagged text on my external monitor hooked up to my rMBP? I am using an ASUS MX279H monitor. The text is pretty jagged everywhere. Safari, Messages, ...
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External monitor flickering via Displayport

Problem When I try to connect the monitor to the portable through a Displayport cable, the monitor immediately starts flickering. Sometimes it even turns black for a few seconds. When I try the same ...
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Black screen when macbook returns from sleep

I have a macbookpro unibody late 2008 15p and use OS X Lion, 10.7.3. I use always an external monitor and close the lid. When I finish my work day I put the macbook in sleep mode and it switches off. ...
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Prevent laptop with external monitor from reverting to built-in screen after waking from sleep

I have a new HP Mini Note running Windows 7 Starter. It mostly stays on the desktop with an external widescreen and whenever I'm not using it I close the lid, thus putting it to sleep. Now more often ...
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xrandr — Treat multiple monitors as separate screens

I have two monitors: Laptop monitor 1920x1080 External monitor 2560x1440 connected with Display Port cable Output of xrandr: Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 4480 x 1440, maximum 32767 x 32767 HDMI-...
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Configure three screens backed by two graphic chips in a laptop under Linux

I'd like to connect two external monitors (one via HDMI, one via VGA) to my HP ProBook 4330s LW813EA laptop, while keeping the laptop screen on as well. The Intel HD 3000 graphics embedded in Core i5-...
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Show application on second screen even when logged off

I have second screen attached to my computer and I would like to use the screen to be showing something permanently. Actually I want just one special application to be running there in full screen. ...
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Secondary monitor won't display at full resolution with primary display disconnected

The LCD display on my Dell E6500 notebook failed. It had been working with a secondary monitor connected through a VGA cable at 1600x900 resolution until I removed the LCD from my notebook for repair....
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External Monitor flickering issue

I have a Samsung S24E650 monitor. It is connected to my laptop or even docking station and it both options the screen flickers. I am doing this connection using a dvi in to hdmi out cable. The drivers ...
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Mac OS Big Sur : how to make my display arrangement stayed permanently?

Situation : I have a MacBook Pro 16" I configured it to run with 3 more monitors like do : Problem : When I reboot my Mac sometimes from sleep, it messed up all my displays arrangement ...
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Laptop only recognizes (Intel SSD 660p Series) NVMe disk when external monitors are disconnected

I'm facing this most strange issue with my laptop. My laptop has 3 video ports: 2 mini display port 1 hdmi port On which I connect 3 external monitors. When I turn on the computer, it boots ...
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How can one change the display name of external monitors on a Mac?

I am curious about this. I want to rename my monitors Left, Right, and Center.
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15 wall mount monitors displaying the same video through LAN?

We want to have announcement/info monitors around our office and we want to stream it all from the same PC. Is it possible to do this via LAN or what's the best cost effective solution to achieve this?...
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Windows 10: Move 2nd monitor windows on disconnect to 2nd virtual desktop

At work my laptop is connected to an external monitor which I use as secondary monitor (i.e. extended desktop). When attending meetings in other rooms with my laptop and I have to disconnect the ...
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External 1440p display connected to Intel HD 620 only has 1680x1050 or Full HD as maximum resolutions

I want to connect an external screen with 2560x1440 resolution (Dell U2711) to my ThinkPad T470s (LENOVO 20HGS0YK01) with Intel HD 620 Graphics and Windows 10. According to the specifications, ...
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Windows Display Settings with multiple monitors for home and work

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1 that I use both at work and at home. At work I have two 2K Samsung monitors while at home I have a 4K Asus monitor and a 1080p Acer monitor. The setups are ...
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Cannot drag full desktop and app windows lose position when being the desktop is dragged to another monitor in macOS Mojave Beta (10.14.1)

I have several application windows open in one of the desktops on my MacBook Pro (late 2016) running macOS Mojave Beta (10.14.1), and have a Dell monitor connected. Whenever I want to move a ...
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How can I set extended monitor setting as the default when any secondary screen it attached?

When I plug in a new secondary monitor to my laptop, I have to configure the display from "Duplicate" to "Extended". While this persistes if I plug in the same screen, windows forgets/ignores this ...
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Chrome scrolling is choppy on external display

When I go to this page https://fontawesome.com/icons?d=gallery the scrolling is choppy. The same eg. for gitlab when scrolling longer diffs https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/15670/...
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How to completely disable the display on a MacBook Pro while external monitors are plugged in?

I don't have external keyboard. I use one or two external monitors. I want my MacBook Pro screen to be disabled when external monitors are connected automatically to save power and fix annoying ...
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Lenovo Thinkpad P51 4k support

For my university, I am getting a Lenovo Thinkpad P51. And I would like to know if I would be able to use a 4K 27" monitor without blowing up the graphics card. The monitor I am thinking of buying is ...
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Is it possible to use SurfaceBook as a monitor?

I got a desktop computer and a SurfaceBook(with performance base), but don't have an extra monitor(even if I have, it'll be difficult for me to find a place to place it...), so I want to use the SB as ...
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Text and other icons appear really small or really large on internal and external displays

Using: HP Spectre x360 laptop 15" 3840 x 2160 Windows 10, HP 27wm monitor 27" 1920 x 1080, Visual Studio 2015, Tableau 10.2 Note: Forgive my lack of technical speaking. I am not fluent with computer ...
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(Win7) Automatically configure display options with laptop & external monitor

First off, this is on windows 7. I use an external monitor with my laptop. Sometimes I use both, sometimes I just use one or the other. What I want it do to: Laptop lid open + External monitor on:...
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Using DLNA certified smart TV as an external monitor for Linux

In general would be possible to start DLNA (server I guess) on Linux laptop which will be sharing/mirroring/cloning/extending ... laptop's desktop to Smart TV (which will act as a DLNA client I guess) ...
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HDMI to Thunderbolt in for MacBook

The goal: Get Apple TV to play on my external display. The components: Apple TV (4th gen) MacBook Pro (mid 2015) w/ports 2x Thunderbolt, 2x USB, 1x HDMI, 1x audio out / mic in. Apple Cinema Display....
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MacBook Pro doesn't wake up 4K external display connected via the displayport

I have a MacBook Pro Retina 15" Mid 2015 running Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) and I have a Samsung U32D970Q 4K external display that I would like to use in a closed clamshell mode through displayport ...
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Is it possible to enter bios using an external monitor on a Vaio VGN-FE21S?

The manual says Fn+F7 should switch to the external display but this isn't working for me at power on. The internal LCD is dead so I was hoping to be able to enter BIOS using the external monitor. ...
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DisplayPort MST and HDMI adapter

I have a Dell u2715h monitor which has both a DisplayPorts in and a DisplayPort out. It claims to support DisplayPort 1.2 and MST (Multi-Stream Transport). I do not have a second DisplayPort enabled ...
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Is my monitor faulty and I need to return it, or is there a quick fix?

I just bought a BenQ RL2455HM monitor. I was really excited until I opened the box, connected the power lead and turned on the monitor to see that it is not working properly. I cannot post any ...
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How to select video connector between laptop and external monitor?

I want to connect a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon laptop to a Dell 2408 WFP external monitor. The ThinkPad laptop has a 14.0" WQHD (2560x1440) onboard display. It has Mini-DP and HDMI ports, and via a ...
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How is an external monitor recognised?

On Mountain Lion 10.8.2 (and also on Snow Leopard as far as I know) external monitors are somehow recognised and remembered by my laptop. For example: When I change the wallpaper on the external ...
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Make WinXP believe that there is a second monitor? (ATI Radeon Mobility 9000)

See the screenshot below. It shows the Windows display properties in German. I can configure a second display, although I have not connected one. So far, so good. Only it does not work: When I click ...
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How to install Windows 7 using an external display?

I have a Sony Vaio VPCF115FM. Through a lot of research online, I've come to find out that this laptop has external video ports (VGA & HDMI) that only work once the operating system loads the ...
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Using a tablet as a monitor

I would like to use a tablet (open to any at this point, just want something light) as a monitor as well. For example using a Nexus 7 as a monitor so I can see the post output of a PC.
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Force the computer to always use current display settings

So I'm having a terrible black screen problem with my new installation of Windows 8. The screen basically goes to black every time I turn it on or sleep, or connect to an external or monitor. I dont ...
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Monitor not displaying windows 7 correctly

I have just got a 15" Digimate TFT LCD monitor. I'm running Windows 7. Now the icons are too big, as are the windows in both browsers and word processing software - and everything has a bit to the ...
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How to switch to laptop screen from external display automatically on power loss?

I recently got a external LCD display for my laptop. It is connected via the VGA port. I am using the "Projector Only" mode by pressing the Fn+F3 function on my laptop. This makes the laptop's screen ...
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Horizontal offset on second monitor over VGA only (osX)

Im running osX 10.7.4 on a macbook pro and for some reason my second monitor is playing up. If I connect via VGA I have a horizontal offset of about 200px (more than I can manually adjust for in my ...
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How to make laptop without an OS boot directly to an external monitor?

My laptop screen broke so I've been looking up methods to boot a laptop directly to an external monitor and many people say to use the FN+F4, which I have tried and it has failed to produce any ...
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Use different display settings for the welcome / logon screen than my desktop? (Windows 7)

I vaguely recall back in the days of Windows XP that I could set up my display settings as "Administrator" and they would apply to the logon screen. However, once I log in my user settings could ...
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How can I set my internal display to my integrated gpu and all my outputs to my external gpu?

I know a question like this has already been asked, but they only asked if it is possible. I want to know how someone actually does this. In particular, the second option from that question's accepted ...
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DisplayLink Manager, BetterDisplay and HiDPI mode for 2k monitors on macOS 13

I have been using a 2k monitor with my 2021 MacBook Pro "M1 Pro". The native resolution is 2560x1440. The macOS operating system does not think it is HiDPI and refuses to provide the HiDPI ...
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Colors red in external monitors - Ubuntu 22

I have a Lenovo extreme gen3 with ubuntu 22 installed. I have an external monitor at home where the colors are perfect. The weird problem is that all the external monitors other than my one at home, ...
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